I asked LM_NET about high senior privileges and received a very interesting
variety of responses. Below is the original question and the responses.
Thanks to all who responded.
It's always good to know what the rest of the world is doing.
Tim Wojcik
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School
Fairburn, GA
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From: Tim Wojcik
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 20:34:09 -0500
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Subject: OT - Senior Privileges
Does your high school give seniors any privileges?
At our school, a small, private 9-12 school, most of the day-to day
privilege is actually a version of uniform that only seniors may wear.
Back in my day, there was off-campus privileges.
That was some time ago.
If your school gives your high school seniors special privileges, please
reply.
I'll post a hit.
Tim Wojcik - librarian & media specialist
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School
Fairburn, GA
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Our independent school serves 6-12, and we serve a population of 670
students total. Our seniors have a senior lounge / dinning hall with a
television and a game system that is seperate from the school dinning
hall. They also are allowed to go off campus for lunch on Fridays if
they are in good standing (grades and behavior).
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1. A monthly parking pass is drawn for one senior to be able to park
in the faculty lot.
2. Seniors may eat lunch in the Home Ec room rather than cafeteria
3. Seniors may budge to the front of the lunch line
4. Seniors may have late entry or early release, if those periods
are free.
We disbanded off campus lunch, as neighboring schools had car accident
deaths during lunch. We also have no area for a senior lounge. So, we
try to be creative, but it's hard!
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Seniors may wear special senior t shirts, jeans, and sneaks on Monday
and Friday only -- that is the only privilege.
No one is allowed to leave - totally closed campus with locked doors.
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Our high school gives exam exemption privileges only to seniors who have
not missed more than 2 days in a particular class provided their grade
is high enough (A=2 days absent; B=1 day absent).
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Our high school gives senior priviledges, also. They have a senior
t-shirt that they helped design that they wear with jeans every other
Friday in lieu of the uniform. They also can go to breakfast or lunch
once a month with the sponsor. However, this privilege has been
suspended because they started coming back late to their next class.
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Seniors can opt out of first and last period study halls. They can go
home or stay. While they do not need a pass to come to library at
those times, they do need to sign in.
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Our seniors are allowed to have late arrival and/or early dismissal, if
they don't have classes those periods.
They are also allowed to go to the cafeteria once they check in with
their studyhall teachers, if they want to. Periods 1 and 2 the
cafeteria serves breakfast, and periods 4-8 are lunch blocks, so that
means they can sit with friends and eat instead of staying in quiet
studyhalls.
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We are also a 9-12 all boys boarding school. Our seniors have the privilege
to go back to their dorm rooms during their study halls. They also do not
have a required "lights out" time. They may also sign in to the library or
student center anytime without a pass.
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In our upper school (9-12) we have senior privileges which begin at the
end of junior year, right around now. They must have completed half of
their community service requirement, have their cars registered and have
served all their detentions. What the privileges allow is one late arrival
to school per week (by 10:00 a.m.) and they may sign out after their last
class or academic commitment on any given day. Seniors may sign out/in if
they have 2 consecutive free periods (often one of them is before or after
lunch period).
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I work in a large high school. Our seniors are allowed to leave school
about 10 minutes early on Fridays and one of the lunch room lines is
reserved for seniors only the first 10 minutes of the lunch period.
Seniors wear their class shirts on specific dates for other privileges
such as free ice cream from Friendly's during lunch. In the past we had
other privileges also such as seniors entering last at pep rallies and
assemblies and the underclassmen (9-11 grades) were required to stand
while they marched in.
I participated in an exchange program to Australia and the school there
allowed juniors and seniors some additional privileges however students
in those grades wore a different color uniform shirt so it was easy to
identify them. They were allowed to arrive late for class and leave
campus as they chose to go and had a special area on campus where they
were allowed tea time separate from the rest of the school (K-10).
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We still have off-campus privileges for our seniors, although it starts
much later in the year than it used to. Also, by the grace of God,
their last day of actual school is next Wednesday. Then they have
exams, and graduate on May 21st.
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One of the Senior privileges at a HS I worked in was that...if their
schedule allowed...they could
come in second period or leave after eighth. This was contingent on
them either not having a class schedules for the period that they were
"off" or having a study hall and the parent also had to give permission.
We had a few kids who hung out in the library either 1st or 9th because
they didn't have a class but their parents wouldn't give permission for
them to come in late or leave early as the case maybe. The majority did
get approval.
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Our seniors have open lunch. The high school has around 300-400
students but the town is only about 1400 people (lots of rural kids).
However, the students LOVE their open lunch as they usually congregate
at some town kids home and bring their own food and relax.
There are other priveledges throughout the year that only Seniors get
like being able to opt out of finals (if they have an A in the class
already) - on State-assessment days they don't have to be at school
until after 10:00 - they get the best prizes during academic
appreciation days - they have their own separate lockers and "hang out
spot" (or they use to before the tornado destroyed our schools but the
new school plans has the same arrangement) - ect.
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We have "Senior Hall" where all seniors have their lockers so they are
together during passing periods. The school is built around a courtyard
and that is reserved for seniors to have lunch on nice days. No
underclassmen allowed. The kids really guard these privileges. Uniforms
are the same as everyone else's. No off-campus privileges since some
students from a local high school were killed in a car wreck during
lunch off campus. Believe drinking was involved.
Hope this helps.
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Seniors sit down front at any convocations or assemblies. When it is
dismissal time, they are allowed to march out (to some great song)
before anyone else can leave the auditorium. Seniors can leave school
at 2 p.m. on Fridays, if there are no disciplinary actions against them.
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Our senior privileges include out-of-uniform and going off campus for
lunch.
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We're a small private school too and our seniors have several
privileges. They are allowed to have breakfast in the cafeteria (bagels,
cereal, fruit, sweet rolls) which they pay for; they are allowed 2
senior cuts (days off); they may go off-campus for lunch if they sign
out, and they are allowed to park at the top of the hill (a very high
one) instead of at the bottom where the junior parking is! We have
uniforms too but second semester they are allowed to wear the sweat
shirt of their chosen college (no other school clothing is ever
allowed).
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We are also a small private school. Seniors are allowed to walk off
campus for lunch (there are a few quick service, sandwich-type places
nearby), but they cannot drive anywhere. Seniors who are on the honor
roll have the option of spending their study halls anywhere on campus
once they've checked with the the study hall monitor at the beginning of
the period. Hope this helps.
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In my son's HS senior privilege means they can leave before the last
period of the day. They are on block scheduling and the last period is
"flex", which is basically study hall.
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No special privileges, but seniors do finish about a week earlier than
everyone else. Today is the last day for seniors, and everyone else goes
to the 20th.
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I work at a small school as well. Our seniors (this is only our second
graduating class) negotiate priveleges with the principal. Insurance
matters kept them from being able to negotiate an off campus lunch.
They got to wear team jackets indoors; dress clothes on Mass day instead
of the uniform; college tshirts on spirit days;special senior tshirt;
and early dismissal for lunch (two minutes ahead of the rest of the
students).
I'd be interested in knowing if other schools also give special privileges.
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